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Do you find you experience dramas differently when you have to recap it? How do you balance recap-drama commentary and non (ex. on tumblr) commentary? Have you had trouble w/ time crunches when following the recap schedule (7 hrs 2x a week is a lot of time!)?

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I feel like I’m giving an interview or something with all these recapping questions.

Let’s see…

Do you find you experience dramas differently when you have to recap it?

Kinda. I’m forced to pay closer attention to details more than I normally would when I’m just watching it (which is when I discovered that I don’t really like rom-coms when I have to recap them, because I was previously unaware how often I skim over the parts that bore me. You may note that I rarely recap rom-coms any more). I also am more aware of the outside perception of a drama. I self-select and cloister myself with like-minded people here on tumblr, so seeing other people’s reactions to a show is sometimes… fun. Yeah, we’ll say fun.

Although, there have been a few times when I’ve recapped a show I probably would have passed on if left to my own devices, and it turned out to be one of my favorite shows of the year, so that’s always a nice bonus.

How do you balance recap-drama commentary and non (ex. on tumblr) commentary?

I don’t really engage much on here about a show I’m recapping, mostly because I spend so much time and brain-effort on that show the last thing I want to do is talk about it elsewhere. There are some exceptions – I was brought on to CBA late, after I’d already started squeeing about it here. But while I’ll still reblog gifsets, I probably won’t have a lot of text posts about it any more. I also don’t typically go into the tag of a show I’m working on because I like my opinion of the show to be my opinion, y’know? I try not to read anyone else’s reactions until after I’ve submitted the recap.

Have you had trouble w/ time crunches when following the recap schedule (7 hrs 2x a week is a lot of time!)?

It’s really only 7 hours once a week, since a show is often split between two recappers. And YES! It’s hard maintaining a balance sometimes when work gets busy or family stuff happens and then I’m scrambling to meet the deadline. (You’ll note I rarely ever work on the odd-numbered episodes. That’s for a reason.) For anyone who grumbles about why shows aren’t up the same day they air, well, the minions have a life – we have jobs, we go to school, we have family who like to see us and friends we like to hang out with. Oh, and sleep is nice, too.

This is probably late, but I just noticed that you’re recapping come back ahjussi. I’m glad to see your recap again. Just curious. How long does it usually take to recap an episode? Do you recap as you watch or watch it until the end first?

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It takes me about seven hours to recap a show from start to finish. Half of that is writing, half of that is screencapping/formatting/editing/etc. It used to take me no less than ten hours when I first started, so, hey, there’s some improvement!

Everyone has their own way of doing things, and I’ve tested out a few ways to figure out what works best for me. I personally like to watch the show on its own first, usually when it first airs, so I can have a feel of the overall episode. It helps to know what I can gloss over or skip when writing it up and what are the main scenes that need most of my attention (as well as start to mentally formulate whatever comments at the end, although those are often subject to change by the time I start writing them just depending on whatever’s left in my brain). This does mean I end up watching an episode at least a couple of times, but I’ve found that’s just easier for me than trying to watch and recap on a first go.

Where can I watch Neighborhood Lawyer, Jo Deul Ho?

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If you’re in Singapore, it’s available on VIU.

If you’re not, then you might need to wait a week, since it will be available on KBS World’s youtube channel starting next Monday. They’re good about hosting a lot of shows that are subbed, but they only post them a week after airdate.

I don’t believe it’s available on Dramafever or Viki (at least, not yet).

(Or you can download it/watch it on whatever the latest dramacool type sites are, but I presume you’re talking about legal streaming sites.)

I’m the previous anon who asked about CBA and I just found that I think I’m right with Hong Nan saying ‘yeobo’ and I think HJ just calls HN by his real name? But just says it really quickly? (Again referring back to ep4)

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Hi, Anon! I’m sorry, I don’t remember your previous CBA ask (or maybe tumblr ate it?), but I will affirm that Hong Nan calls Hae Joon “yeobo” (a term of endearment typically reserved for married couples, so it’s like saying “wifey” or “hubby”) and Hae Joon calls Han Gi Tak/Han Hong Nan “Han hyung.”

Did you make a post about last year’s top 10 drama? I love seeing that post from you every year but I think I missed it this time.

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No, I didn’t. December gets pretty hectic for me and so I’m not organized enough (or remember enough about what I watched) to craft a good post. (Or I’m just lazy. That too.)

Plus 2015 just wasn’t a great year for me, drama wise. I had to go digging for the list of dramas I completed last year and it made me go “oh, yeah, I watched that!” because I forgot about so many of them. I’ll make a quick run-down, starting from my favorite to least favorite of the shows that I watched through until completion (there were a bunch I never got past the first few episodes):

Valid Love – my top drama of 2015. I’ve written about it a lot.

Last – I went into this show with no expectations or knowledge about what it would be like, and it’s vying for my favorite of the year.

My Beautiful Bride – such a good.

Midnight Diner – apparently I’m one of the rare persons who adored this little show, but it was the pleasant pick-me-up I needed in my drama drought.

Ex-Girlfriend Club – this is the only true rom-com I enjoyed last year.

Bubblegum – yes, it got a little (okay a lotta) sad in the middle, but it was still a beautiful drama with an excellent cast and a perfect use of music.

Seonam Girls High School Investigators – not a perfect drama, but I really liked that it used actual teenage girls as the leads and it felt realistic to the genre. Plus it tackled issues that other shows geared to adults would probably never touch.

The Lovers – this little sitcom was hilarious and tackled relationship issues that are more true-to-life than you might see on other dramas. 

Ho-gu’s Love – for some reason I literally forget this drama exists until things pop up to remind me about it, but it was a good little drama for what it was. A little off-beat, but in the best way, and I just enjoyed the way it tackled various issues. I’ll forever have a soft spot for it – when I remember it, that is.

Girl Who Sees Smells – it was cute and enjoyable but I really don’t remember much about it except for the smell-o-vision FX.

Persevere, Gu Hae Ra – I loved our little underdog team, and the music was great, too. The plot was a little “eh” – I wasn’t a fan of that whole “long-lost twin” thing or the love triangle.

Oh My Ghost – I really wanted to love this show as much as everyone else, but I just didn’t connect with it as much as I should have, despite it having all the hallmarks of everything I’d love (especially the cast!).

Hidden Identity – this show had a lot of flaws, but it was a nice popcorn action-drama to watch over the summer.

I Order You – all I really remember was that it was cute and fun in the moment, and that Yunho did a better job than I was expecting.

Let’s Eat 2 – I will forever be bitter about the complete erasure of Soo Kyung noona. If the show hadn’t made the misstep in the romance department, and also somehow made the food as appealing as it was in the first season, I would have enjoyed it so much more, since it was cute enough in it’s “we’re clearly being sponsored by the Korean cultural/tourism department” way.

Producer – I liked the first few episodes and was excited about getting a behind-the-scenes peek about the craziness of running a variety show. Instead I got a boring love quadrilateral that wasted the talents of my beloved Cha Tae Hyun.

D-Day – there was so much potential here and yet it made me want to tear my hair out because no one cares about the evil hospital director. NO ONE CARES!

Masked Prosecutor – I demand recompense for the hours I spent watching this and a promise that my favorite actors who starred in it will not be cursed by a show this terrible again.

Also I just pulled up a list of dramas aired in 2015 to make sure I didn’t miss anything, and I realized that I didn’t put down Spy on my original list. That goes to show how memorable that drama… wasn’t. But now I’m sad because I could have had an extra bean! *pout*

Is there a chance you will recap pied piper now that it’s subbed?

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Me personally? No, because I only squee and reblog gifsets here.

As for DB, I doubt it. I’m working on another show and I think most everyone else is, too. Even if they’re not, there are too many intriguing shows premiering next week, and it’s so much easier to start when a show premieres than scramble to get caught up weeks later.

So dss uses google translate? That’s what I understand from what you say. Sorry if I’m wrong. I’m not familiar with their subs.

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No, it’s humans translating. It’s just sometimes the translations are confusing coming from the Chinese (which is where the original subs come from), as they don’t always make sense in English, and so it needs to be cleaned up by people who are perhaps more fluent in English.

Like if you use google translate. You might be able to get the gist but it takes a little brain-work to make sense of the mess. You wouldn’t just use the google translate as an official translation, y’know? That’s why I mentioned it, because if someone was downloading the subs without them being edited, they’ll probably be more confused than watching raw.

It’s worth it to wait until the subs have gone through the QC before downloading.

Any updates on pied piper subs?

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Ahhhh, perfect timing, Anon, because I’m impatiently waiting for ep 3 to download and literally about five minutes ago did a thorough search and…

…nada.

There’s still hope, again, that Darksmurfsubs will pick it up because the Chinese subs are very prompt. Buuuut it could still take awhile if they do pick it up. There’s still no page on Dramafever (although there is a page for Memory, so for those of you bummed that Memory might not be picked up, have hope!). Nothing new on Viki (not that I was expecting). There are these, but I’m not sure how good they are as I haven’t bothered to test them yet.

So in DSS we shall pin our hope and trust. If anyone is interested in helping sub, even if it’s just to edit the English when *fingers crossed* the Chinese subs are translated, go there and check it out!

Ooooh, and in the time I was typing this up, the ep finished downloading, so I’ll see if the show is as good as the first two eps (the drastic dip in viewer ratings has me mildly concerned, but… Shin Ha Kyun!).